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| George Harrison's Gone Troppo post-dates Night and Daydream, suggesting Harrison was influenced by Ananta |
From "Grampus" on the "Rate Your Music" website with 'respect' to Ananta's Night and Daydream:
"This album is without equal in the whole of my collection. It is quite simply appalling and an embarrassment which, when you consider some of the other trash I've bought, is really saying something, but at least there is a story behind it.
Walking through Manchester town centre one Saturday morning clutching an armful of recently purchased albums, totally oblivious to everything going on around me, I'm suddenly accosted by a bloke dressed in a sheet." Would you like to buy one of these, sir?", he said thrusting this album under my nose. "Do you like any of these singers?", he said, pointing out the names of Santana, Dylan, Harrison, Diamond, Wonder and Marley on the cover. Well, I admitted that I did and so sealed my fate. For what seemed the next hour, I was appealed to, exhorted with, pleaded with to buy one of these things and, after beating him down from some ridiculous price, I added it to my others. It was only when playing it that I realised he should have paid me. Ananta are basically a group of very sad people spouting crack-pot religious ideas and all those artists named on the cover simply support those ideals and have never been within a million miles of this thing. So, what do I think of the music? Well you can tell by the amount of space left to review it. It's just aaaaaaaaahhh!!"
Walking through Manchester town centre one Saturday morning clutching an armful of recently purchased albums, totally oblivious to everything going on around me, I'm suddenly accosted by a bloke dressed in a sheet." Would you like to buy one of these, sir?", he said thrusting this album under my nose. "Do you like any of these singers?", he said, pointing out the names of Santana, Dylan, Harrison, Diamond, Wonder and Marley on the cover. Well, I admitted that I did and so sealed my fate. For what seemed the next hour, I was appealed to, exhorted with, pleaded with to buy one of these things and, after beating him down from some ridiculous price, I added it to my others. It was only when playing it that I realised he should have paid me. Ananta are basically a group of very sad people spouting crack-pot religious ideas and all those artists named on the cover simply support those ideals and have never been within a million miles of this thing. So, what do I think of the music? Well you can tell by the amount of space left to review it. It's just aaaaaaaaahhh!!"
It is worth reading the other forum entries to get a flavour of the spectrum of emotions spanned by this enigmatic album. It is the best and worst of all things and perfect for a The Sand in Your Head special.
Tonight we play selections from all of the artists listed as assisting Ananta with its "Worldwide Projects" as well as some other UK prog from around the time of the Night and Daydream release and some Saga ... and Frank Zappa!
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